Suicide Machines reviewed

"A Match and Some Gasoline"
The Suicide Machines
www.sideonedummy.com
2003


This album is a pleasant surprise, with straight-on politics from beginning to end. Most of the album is hard-core punk, but "Did You Ever Geta Feeling of Dread?" "High Anxiety," and "Split the Time" is ska that sounds very much like the Mighty Mighty Bosstones.

Even the lyrics that refer to the bought-off middle-classes of Amerikkka are not too bad. Most of the album is good anti-imperialism and anti-militarism.

MIM has explained that one might even "like" this music while knowing rationally that there is something wrong with it, maybe even profoundly wrong and evil. Being a Maoist means being a revolutionary scientist and that means having the ability to question everything that we like.

Who are you to decide?

See also our MIM Theory on gender issues

Read Mao on politics in all literature and art

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